'Through this p'ai-lou we entered a little square courtyard, where under shady trees, two superbly carved, life-size stone elephants kept guard over the entrance to a massive stone building which contained the Potala memorial tablets, or archives, engraved in four languages on three immense, vertical blocks of highly polished stone.' (Jehol: city of emperors). The city of Jehol is now known as Chengde and in 1956, Jehol province became part of Hebei province.